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Surviving Sarajevo
Looking back at her childhood in both Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Croatia, Senada recalls how she found the beauty of the region’s foothills and valleys, and the freedom that came with exploring them, nothing short of intoxicating.
Losing that freedom never crossed Senada’s mind.
That is, until her idyllic homeland was savagely overrun at the onset of the Bosnian War. Fearing for their lives, Senada’s family moved to Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which had declared its independence from Yugoslavia.
In April 1992, the Army of Republika Srpska, comprised of Bosnian Serbs trying to create a new state, encircled and blockaded the city, the start of an almost four-year siege that would claim, by some estimates, nearly 100,000 civilian lives—and wreak untold psychological havoc.
Senada’s perilous humanitarian work with the United Nations during the war ultimately caught the eye of an American military officer as well as that of a U.S.
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